This is a list of the most significant military organisations that have counter-IED (improvised explosive devices) capability of merit. Obviously almost all militaires around the world have some C-IED capacity, but this list seeks to highlight the best equppied and the busiest (not always the same thing). This list includes both national and transnational organisations.
- Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- AFRICOM
- Asia Pacific Counter Improvised Explosive Device Fusion Center (APCFC)
- Baghdad Operations Command
- Bahrain Public Security Forces counter-terrorism units
- Bundeswehr C-IED Branch
- Cameroon military EOD/CIED
- Canadian Armed Forces (CAF)
- Coast Guard -Yemen
- Combat Engineering Corps (Israel)
- Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR)
- CSTC-A C-IED Directorate
- Defence Forces Ireland – The Ordnance Corps
- Egyptian Armed Forces (C-IED/EOD teams)
- Ethiopia National Defense Force
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal Detachment (EOD) of 1st U.S. Army Support Battalion (SPTBATT)
- Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Peace Support Training Centre (FDRE-PSTC)
- Global Terrorism Database
- International Peacekeeping and Security Centre (IPSC)
- Iraqi Security Forces
- Joint Counter Improvised Threats Task Force
- Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Agency (JIDA)
- Kenya Defence Forces (KDF)
- King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center
- Kurdish Security Forces/Peshmerga
- Lebanon Armed Forces – Bomb disposal/CIED
- Lebanon Mine Action Authority (LMAA)
- Malian Armed Forces
- Mine Action Co-ordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA)
- Mongolian Armed Forces
- Mossad
- Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF)
- National Mine Action Committee (NMAC) (Yemen)
- NATO Resolute Support Mission (Afghanistan)
- Netherlands Joint Task Force Counter-IED
- New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) C-IED units
- Nigerian Armed Forces (NAF)
- Operation Barkhane
- Pakistan Air Forces (PAF) EOD School
- Pakistan Security Forces C-IED units
- Palestinian Mine Action Center
- Partnership for Regional East Africa Counterterrorism (PREACT)
- Polisario Front – SPLA
- Royal Cambodian Armed Forces
- Royal Thai Army EOD
- Russian Armed Forces International Mine Action Centre
- Spanish Army Demining and EOD personnel
- Swedish EOD and Demining Centre
- Task Force Al Asad (TFAA)
- TG Taji
- Thailand Mine Action Centre (TMAC)
- Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP)
- Tripartite (United States, Afghanistan, and Pakistan) Counter-IED Working Group
- Tunisian Security Forces CIED/EOD
- Ukrainian Armed Forces – CIED/EOD
- US Army C-IED units
- US Army Communications Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC)
- US Marine Corps
- US Navy Special Operations (EOD units)
This research was made possible by funding from the NATO Counter Improvised Explosive Devices Centre of Excellence (C-IED COE). The main report, ‘Addressing the threat posed by IEDs‘, can be seen here.
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